Gunship: 21st Century Warrior Apache
Alternative title: Gunship: The Helicopter Simulation
Platform: Amiga 500
Region: Europe
Media: Floppy
Controller: Joystick, Mouse and Keyboard
Genre: Flight Simulator - 3D - Military
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1989
Developer: MicroProse Software, Inc.
Publisher: MicroProse Software, Inc.
Players: 1
Hardware: OCS, ECS
Conversions: Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, FM Towns, MSX, PC-98, Sharp X68000, ZX Spectrum
Disks: 1
Programmer: Russell Finn, Silas Warner
Musician: Ken Lagace
Designer: Barbara Bents
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Gunship depicts the Western world's finest attack helicopter: The AH-64A Apache. This simulation recreates the weapons, flight systems, and performance of the real machine. You control an arsenal that includes laser-guided Hellfire missles, a 30mm cannon controlled by helmet gunsights, clusters of bombardment rockets--even air-to-air missles for duels with enemy helicopters.

Gunship starts with flight training at a base in the USA. Tutorials teach you to handle the copter; once the controls and flying skills are mastered, there are escalating challenges and hundreds of missions in any one of four regions of the world, including Southeast Asia, Central America, the Middle East, and the USSR and it's Warsaw Pact allies in Western Europe.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/gunship

Based on 1986 MicroProse C64/128 release.
PC versions: CGA, EGA, Tandy/PCjr

N.B. Despite loading instructions for the Apple II and Atari XL/XE appearing in the manual, the game was never released for these platforms. 

Known releases: 

- v832-01 (1989)
- v832-02 (1989) 
- v832-03 (1989)

TRIVIA:: Originally scheduled for release in mid-1988, the Amiga version of GUNSHIP didn't materialise until mid-1989. Reportedly, the delay was predominantly the result of the programmer's source disk becoming infected with a virus [Source: Amiga User Int'l (Sept 88, p44), courtesy of the Amiga Magazine Rack].
